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Entertaining so far, and it just got überweird—in a good way!

“Modernity turned the world upside down. It convinced human collectives that equilibrium is far more frightening than chaos, and because avarice fuels growth, it is a force for good. Modernity accordingly inspired people to want more, and dismantled the age-old disciplines that curbed greed.” p. 255

🤯👍🔥

“Sapiens rule the world because only they can weave an intersubjective web of meaning: a web of laws, forces, entities and places that exist purely in their common imagination.” p. 175

This book is simply one of the best books I’ve ever read. Almost done… RTC!!

“Every artist harbors a mysterious duality: if life tosses him about stormily he yearns for peace; but no sooner is peace given him than he longs for the old agitation.” p. 399

Happy Star Wars Day, my fellow Rebel Scum! May the 4th be with you!

“People today imagine the ancient temple in Jerusalem as a kind of big synagogue where priests clad in snow-white robes welcomed devout pilgrims, melodious choirs sang psalms and incense perfumed the air. In reality, it looked more like a cross between a slaughterhouse and a barbecue joint.” p. 105

This book is fascinating and enlightening… a game-changer!! RTC…

Wow, the detestable things some people do in the name of faith… 😳

“It’s… a fallacy to think that the physical brain and the thinking mind exist as separate layers in a precisely engineered “architecture.” The brain and the mind, the neuroplasticity pioneers have shown, are exquisitely intertwined, each shaping the other.” p. 141

“I had thrown off the burden that had rested on my soul and had been restored to myself; in the very hour in which everything in me was “No” against the times, I had found the “Yes” to myself. p. 288

Zweig on the publication of his anti-war play “Thersites” during World War I.